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Importance of Research

In both scientific and non-scientific disciplines, research is essential. Every day, new issues, events, occurrences, and processes emerge in our lives. In order to deal with new challenges that develop, practical solutions and proposals are required. Scientists must investigate them in order to determine their causes, solutions, explanations, and applications. Research, in particular, assists us in studying nature and natural processes.

Some important avenues of research are:

(1) A research problem is a challenge that a researcher, a scientific community, a company, a government body, or a society faces. It could be a hypothetical or real-life circumstance. It necessitates a thorough comprehension as well as a potential remedy.

(2) Research on existing theories and concepts helps us identify their range and applications of them.

(3) It is the fountain of knowledge and provides guidelines for solving problems.

(4) Research provides the basis for many government policies. For example, research on the needs and desires of the people and on the availability of revenues to meet the needs helps a government to prepare a budget.

(5) It is important in industry and business for higher gain and productivity and to improve the quality of products.

(6) Mathematical and logical research on business and industry optimize their problems in them.

(7) It leads to identifying and characterizing new materials, new living things, new stars, etc.

(8) Only through research inventions can be made; for example, new and novel phenomena and processes such as superconductivity and cloning have been discovered only through research.

(9) Social research helps find answers to social problems. They explain social phenomena and seek solutions to social problems.

(10) Research leads to a new style of life and makes it delightful and glorious.

 

Louis Pasteur emphasized the value of research and Said.: I beseech you to take interest in these sacred domains called laboratories. Ask that there be more and that they are adorned for these are the temples of the future, wealth, and well-being. It is here that humanity will learn to read progress and individual harmony in the works of nature, while humanity’s own works are all too often those of barbarism, fanaticism, and destruction. (Louis Paster –article by S. Mahanti, Dream 2047, p.29–34 (May 2003)).